Gill Landry’s "Love Rides A Dark Horse" follows his critically acclaimed self-titled 2015 album. Rolling Stone raved that the record landed at "the four-way intersection between Dylan-inspired folk-rock, atmospheric Americana, dusty cowboy songs and street busker ballads," while American Songwriter hailed it saying “these songs, and especially Landry’s honest performance, resonate long after the last note fades. They beckon you back to further absorb his heartfelt, occasionally comforting, musings on the trials and tribulations of romance-gone-sour. This album breaks new ground for Landry with contributions from fiddler Ross Holmes (Mumford & Sons, Bruce Hornsby), keyboard player Skylar Wilson (Andrew Combs, Rayland Baxter), and drummer Logan Matheny (Roman Candle, Rosebuds), the songs explore a more seductive, stripped-down sound built upon a hushed sense of intimacy that calls to mind Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. The album's tattered narratives cast aside romanticism in favour of reality.

“Don’t you know, there is no evermore,” Gill Landry talk/sings on the hypnotic, atmospheric “Denver Girls,” the opening to his fourth solo release. Those somber words are indicative of the tone established through the remaining eight selections. Since 2015’s self-titled release, Landry left the relative security of the popular roots band Old Crow Medicine Show and suffered a tough breakup with a one-time fiancée. That forced a reevaluation of his life and the introspective, generally dark songs that pour out of him on this album try to both make sense of the past few years and look forward to a new start. It’s a “map out of the darkness,” he says in the disc’s promotional notes.